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My first RC Mustang, Circa early 90s
20 size House of Balsa kit, had an OS 25fsr, scratch built mounts for mini Robart retracts

Fun little plane




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A few years later when I got into Pylon,,,

Two HOB kits bashed into a XP-82,, 2 OS 32fsr motors,, very fast and flew like on rails,, my HOB AT-6 racer in the foreground

Txmustangflyer

Updates on Swamp Fox:


I didn't "need" this much opening to clear the engine, but wanted it a bit bigger for cooling. I only needed a small slit to clear the front two corners of the top fin, and a keyed hole if sorts to clear the plug and plug wire. Just didn't think that would be enough air basically relying on the lower opening in the cowl.

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Fixing poor factory paint

After low tack masking tape

After sanding all paint off, prepping plastic surface repainting with primer, Tamiya TS-76 Silver, and Tamiya Satin Clear

Its not an exact match, but good enough till I finish building a Fokkerc P-38 and then strip and flitemetal her.

Txmustangflyer

E-flite, Robart, Sierra, Electron, JP hobby.

Thats most of the makers.

As far as air or electric, well..its like ford vs chevy.

Its going to boil down to a. Space, and b. Convenience.
Personally, I've ran pneumatics, and I've ran electric. I came to hate my pneumatics. No matter how hard I tried, I always had a small leak, somewhere. I'd clamp and ca the fittings, rip it all out and replace it all, etc and no matter what..it would leak down. I ended up swapping to electrics and have stuck with them ever since.
That was years ago. Things have changed somewhat on the pneumatic side of things. You can now have an onboard "recovery" compressor that refills the tanks in flite, no more three or four cycles then out of air. They aren't big, weigh about the same as some lipo packs etc. Bout as big as the palm of your hand, so thats an option, if you have the room. Otherwise, if you go air, you know the drill, wire clamp and ca every joint, at every fitting, and use good, quality valves.
which brand, kinda ford vs chevy again...just look hard at how each are made..one manufacturer may have a wimpy set at one weight, a good set for another...
Electrics, since its a kit..Elektron all the way, hooked to a xicoy LG15 controller.

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Current Stang, assembled in about 2 weeks after loosing my Zero, Did not want the same as everyone else BBD scheme so Callie Graphics did the job

Originally had Robart Electric system married to Sierra Gear, but I had nothing but trouble so they were converted back to Air and have had zero problem since

Most likely this will get stripped glassed and re-schemed at the end of this flying season

jetster

count me in, pica mustang,dle55,26lb. 506th fighter group iwo jima 1945

fw190

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I am not a fan of the P51D, but I absolutely love the P51B/C version! A 1/5th scale and next to it is a 1/4 scale, both B version of course. Both are built from Jerry Bates Plans.

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In the queue

fw190

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Very nice Tom! I gotta get one of those! BTW make sure you sand the leading edge ply caps to the rib shapes to get a good fit on the fuselage.

Maschar

P-51A? Awesome!!

fw190

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We did the maiden last weekend, built from Jerry Bates Plans, 1/4 scale (112" Span) 52 lbs, Fighter Aces Carbon Spinner, Sierra Giant landing gear and ZDZ 140 inline twin.

roydefiant

Very nice. Thanks for sharing

locutus79

Hi,

My name is Patrick and I live in Bruges, Belgium.
We are desperate looking for the plans of a Top Flite Giant Scale P51 Kit (TOPA0400) to repair a fuselage and part of the wing.
Is there someone who could scan the plans and email them as PDF,TIFF or other format ?
We are willing to pay you a Paypal fee for the effort.

Best Regards,
Patrick
Belgium

Henpecked

Mine is not very pretty but I like em dirty and used lookin....

Scratchie

Does anyone know much about this kit? They're half the price of a top flite kit, why? Are they far from scale?

Thanks,
1MH

Fly2XS

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Hello Patrick.
you might look at http://www.planesgoneby.com/ to see what they have.

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Fun scale at best
https://www.rcgroups.com/forums/show...P-51-Questions

easystar123

My beloved P51 which ive had since 2012. It has served me well over this last 11 years and is still flying well.

Overland47

Does anyone belonging to this thread have any information as to where I can get a copy of the Top Flite giant Scale Gold Edition P51D Mustang Plans. I'm building the 65' version now and have the cowl and air scoop for the 84.5' version. I found the manual for the giant scale but have been unfortunate in locating the plans. If anyone can help I would highly appreciate the help.

Many thanks
Robert M
Overland47

I-fly-any-and-all

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People had been selling copies of the plans on ebay but seems they're missing in action now... .
check out the top flite group
https://www.facebook.com/groups/2556...ibextid=NSMWBT

Overland47

Thank you for the quick response. I'm awaiting approval of my membership to their facebook page.